Sold

Sold by: Patricia McCormick

I like books that are somewhat based on a true story. Like the last book we read, it was on a school shooting and school shootings happen. Or like a book I read about a girl getting raped and girls get raped all the time. So this book could be true, I’m sure this has happened to someone out there and it’s about a girl’s step dad who sells her into prostitution without her knowing it. The book is called Sold and it has a little Indian girl on it. Sold is a pretty significant title for the book because it goes along with the book. The little girl that is only 13 is sold into prostitution because her step father is in gambling debt and needs a way to pay it off. I’m upset with the step father because I don’t even think that the mother knows because if she knew then I’m sure that none of it would have happened. The little girl thought she was just going to go and be a maid for the “rich city people” so she has no idea what’s going on either. I think Sold is a really good name for the book because it catches people’s eyes. It defiantly caught my eye when I saw it because I wanted to know what was being “sold.” I didn’t know if they were selling food, or a house, or a mother selling her child or what. To be Sold is a good name for the book because it makes you want to pick it up and read the back to see what’s going on and what is being sold.